Evening Fellow Reefers,
I have purchased a 5ft /400l Tank with Sump for practically nothing. I don't really know why, other then I love a challenge. It will run in the side of a room that isn't used much, so looks arnt the most important thing, I just want to see what's the absolute best I can do with it, on a budget.
So my question is simple, what would you buy 2nd hand? what would you only buy new?
My initial thinking is things like pumps and heaters, Critical Equipment, buy new, I want to know 100% they haven't been abused. Things like Skimmers, Reactors, lights, buy second hand. If they fail, they arn't going to cause catastrophic issues that require immediate resolution.
My idea is to FOWLR / Softie tank. Maybe some LPS further down the line (Acans, Trumpets, nothing crazy).
I have a bag of "live sand" lying around which I plan on mixing with dry sand to get things going. Same with live rock, seed a few KG from existing tank to some ocean rock / dead rock in the new tank. Probably some cheato in the sump
Where would you go with lighting? 5ft is a lot to light. Maybe T5s? LED in the middle (what I call volcano style scaping?)
I already have RO unit, although 50l to 400l will go though the resins much faster.
All views welcome, I'll probably end up with a 5ft gold fish tank
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I have purchased a 5ft /400l Tank with Sump for practically nothing. I don't really know why, other then I love a challenge. It will run in the side of a room that isn't used much, so looks arnt the most important thing, I just want to see what's the absolute best I can do with it, on a budget.
So my question is simple, what would you buy 2nd hand? what would you only buy new?
My initial thinking is things like pumps and heaters, Critical Equipment, buy new, I want to know 100% they haven't been abused. Things like Skimmers, Reactors, lights, buy second hand. If they fail, they arn't going to cause catastrophic issues that require immediate resolution.
My idea is to FOWLR / Softie tank. Maybe some LPS further down the line (Acans, Trumpets, nothing crazy).
I have a bag of "live sand" lying around which I plan on mixing with dry sand to get things going. Same with live rock, seed a few KG from existing tank to some ocean rock / dead rock in the new tank. Probably some cheato in the sump
Where would you go with lighting? 5ft is a lot to light. Maybe T5s? LED in the middle (what I call volcano style scaping?)
I already have RO unit, although 50l to 400l will go though the resins much faster.
All views welcome, I'll probably end up with a 5ft gold fish tank
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